When the ‘Saints’ go marchin’ in

Few 1990s films can boast the cult following that Boondock Saints has cultivated in the past decade. The original introduced the brutally calculating McManus brother, good Irish Catholic boys who took the law into their own hands and began ridding the streets of South Boston of criminals while evading Willem Dafoe’s FBI investigator. After booming DVD sales and ten years of fanboy outcry for a sequel, Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day finally opens this Friday. Notoriously prickly Troy Duffy—rumor has it the Weinsteins got him blacklisted in Hollywood—is back in the director’s chair for the first time in a decade, and Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus reprise their roles as the ultracool, pistol packing assassins. This time, they return to Boston after an idyllic respite in Ireland when their beloved priest is found dead, and they decide to conduct their own investigation into the murder. Billy Connolly, Peter Fonda and Julie Benz co-star. Rated R. (Image courtesy Sony Pictures and Stage 6 Films)